Re: [office-formula] OFFICE-1185 LINEST

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <andreas.guelzow@concordia.ab.ca>]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 12:06 -0600, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-1185
> 
> Frank added the missing math formulas to LINEST, attached.
> Many thanks!
> 
>   Eike
> 

What does "number of variables of the regression
analysis including the intercept" mean? 

The intercept is not a variable. It doesn't seem likely that the degrees
of freedom are independent from whether the intercept is forced to be
zero or not but the same formulation is used in both cases.

Andreas